10-16-2006, 04:15 AM
Aloha Punatics,
Just about everyone here - halfway up the Hamakua coast - had some sort of damage. Most of it was to dishes and things on shelves that had suicidal tendencies. We were lucky we only lost a lot of china, pantry items and knick knacks, but no structural damage to the house. A motorcycle fell over, but wasn't hurt. We have to rebuild a rock wall or two and there were some small landslides along the sides of our back yard. The road in the gulch is still closed from rocks and landslides but the small wooden bridge seems okay.
Some folks further up the coast in Paauilo had waterline and toilet breaks. Much messier and more expensive to fix. A bridge near Paauilo is half gone that will take awhile to fix and cause a lot of backed up traffic for a long time.
It seems the damage was greater the further up the coast you go. My DH was finally able to get into Honokaa today and he will be able to finally see how his classroom looks. He wore heavy work boots, a lifting belt and took a hand truck with him, I don't think he expects to find much left on any shelves and he had been worried about the two cars which had been up on the lifts in the autoshop classroom. He had reports about a "hazard" tape across his class room door and expects the big TV in the classroom as well as some of the computers are probably smashed.
It will take at least a couple days to get this mess cleaned up but nobody was hurt, not even any fish were sloshed out of their tank although a lot of the water was.
It was really nice to get coffee made this morning without any disasters.
A hui hou,
Cathy
Just about everyone here - halfway up the Hamakua coast - had some sort of damage. Most of it was to dishes and things on shelves that had suicidal tendencies. We were lucky we only lost a lot of china, pantry items and knick knacks, but no structural damage to the house. A motorcycle fell over, but wasn't hurt. We have to rebuild a rock wall or two and there were some small landslides along the sides of our back yard. The road in the gulch is still closed from rocks and landslides but the small wooden bridge seems okay.
Some folks further up the coast in Paauilo had waterline and toilet breaks. Much messier and more expensive to fix. A bridge near Paauilo is half gone that will take awhile to fix and cause a lot of backed up traffic for a long time.
It seems the damage was greater the further up the coast you go. My DH was finally able to get into Honokaa today and he will be able to finally see how his classroom looks. He wore heavy work boots, a lifting belt and took a hand truck with him, I don't think he expects to find much left on any shelves and he had been worried about the two cars which had been up on the lifts in the autoshop classroom. He had reports about a "hazard" tape across his class room door and expects the big TV in the classroom as well as some of the computers are probably smashed.
It will take at least a couple days to get this mess cleaned up but nobody was hurt, not even any fish were sloshed out of their tank although a lot of the water was.
It was really nice to get coffee made this morning without any disasters.
A hui hou,
Cathy
Kurt Wilson